new_york_monty:mentallo69: funny in small doses its sold by the gram, in larger doses by the Oz. Why cant we just stick to the farking metric system already

Because weed is the way Americans are introduced to the metric system of masses. Want to find the stoners in a group? Ask out loud how many grams are in an eighth of an ounce. Just say in an 'eighth.' They'll know. So will the scientists, but the stoners will out themselves.

AbsentFriends:So, you pay tens of thousands of dollars for licensing, fees, video surveillance and whatnot. You establish your business. Then the feds come confiscate it all, because something, something, supremacy clause...

And with federal mandatory minimums, you could be sent to prison for decades... for growing plants. That is patently absurd.